“I wanted to take the standard ‘all these angels are in a better place’ meme and turn it around a little, to show these wonderful, beautiful, brave lives…who should still be here,” Pia Guerra tells BuzzFeed. “To both prompt the viewer to ask why they aren’t here while also paying tribute to Mr. Feis’s act of love.”

Mr. Feis, of course, is the football coach at the high school in Florida who protected kids by putting himself between them and the 19-year-old trying to kill them.

While working on that … cartoon … she said she looked up how many school shootings there have been in her country — Canada. Eleven since 1975.

“That’s my main source of anger over all this. A country of 35 million people just north of you guys figured out the issue of access to certain guns and how it correlates to these events,” she said. “Why haven’t you? No, gun control laws won’t absolutely stop these killings…but they will curb them by a significant amount, and create a better society in the process. Please, please consider trying it.”

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Bob Collins has been with Minnesota Public Radio since 1992, emigrating to Minnesota from Massachusetts. He was senior editor of news in the ’90s, ran MPR’s political unit, created the MPR News regional website, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day laments that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

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